Great action scenes, but too much rubbish in between.

Rating: 6/10 (2 February 2016)

Two hours and eleven minutes, that's way too long for what could have been a very fun, action-packed superheros vs. monsters flick. Well, maybe there's no Superman or such here, but 'Son of Anarchy' Hunnam and 'Kumiko' Kikuchi form a pair that comes close to the likes, especially when they 'suit up'. The premise, and a lot of other details, may be far from believable, but this is sci-fi of the imaginative kind.
Guillermo del Toro did some wonderful things in the past, and he tried to keep things interesting here, but a lot of the machismo and romance and such silliness is simply clichéd and boring. And with a film this long, there's no excuse to just cut that out, so I'm getting the feeling that the big studios let del Toro make this, if he would agree to cram in the ingredients for a blockbuster.
The biggest fun of 'Pacific rim' consists mostly of the terrific action scenes, and there is no shortage of that, even if I found the final part (under water) to be a little disappointing. Some humour was reasonably on point as well, like with the two professors and Hannibal Chau.
Too much rubbish in between, though, as said before, so 6 out of 10 seems just about right.